Ok thanks. The trip is pretty ugly, but maybe someone will want it.

Welcome to Delta.

Try the pilot swap board ... your garbage is another pilot's treasure.

Keep the request in. I've had such swaps constantly denied and then, bingo, for no reason that I could tell. Even stranger, had a three day over Labor Day and was able to swap it for a 1 day on a Thursday with no coverage ... go figure.

I went for a year and a half not seeing any color on that screen but black. Someone must have complained, so they added a note at the bottom "color coding has returned to the screen."

The trip that you are picking up has to have worse coverage than your dropped trip.

Read Section 23.W.5

Good vectors fellas, thanks again.

You don't think that somebody didn't drop a dime on them? Doing that is probably not a group event.....I had a guy ask me where to hide money. I told him Honduras was as good as any. He asked me if it would be insured... I just had to walk away. Some guys just need to color inside the lines.

Those DAL training department guys took it in the shorts reportedly from the company. Details are hazy with age, but I remember one of the trainers was big in DALPA and a major pain in Ron Allen's tush. Word was that the call to the Georgia tax compliance office was generated from high up in leadership. It ended up hammering the DALPA guy and the collateral damage took out many training department folks. IIRC, DALPA made their guy whole (bs then and still makes me ill). Feel free to correct my faulty memory or fill in the details.

I get audited frequently. An audit is a receipt check. Auditors are generally disallowed from adding their personal interpretation into what can be considered a gray area...that's why they have supervisors. Keep all receipts (even ones less than $75). Never "cheat" on your taxes. However if a tax area is defensibly gray, I advocate for the write off. The worst that can happen in an audit is that it is disallowed by the supervisor.

Now cheating on your taxes is a whole nutha dumb animal. If you can defend something based on your interpretation of the instructions, write it off.

This is not tax advice, do your own due diligence, ymmv, do not cheat on your taxes.

Ya sorta gotta keep shenanigans to yourself. If you are contemplating any thing with "offshore" in it, remember any transaction in this hemisphere clears through the Bank of NY., even when the money never reaches US shores.

It's hard to keep anything to yourself these days. The first thing a state will ask if they believe you are residing there and not paying taxes is for your cellphone records, credit card records and non rev travel records. That's assuming you met the other standard tests. Drivers licenses, property ownership, voting record and vehicle registrations. As pointed out states are getting very aggressive. CA nailed all the UAL pilots in the early days of the shuttle because more then 51% of the flying was in CA. Utah nailed a bunch of Delta guys who had 25,000 dollar condos in Wyoming while living in Park City.
More and more they are going for criminal as well as civil charges.
Your cellphone always knows where you are!

That's close but I think it was the MEC chairman and he was not in the training department. He lived in FL but was working in ATL. That lead the state to start looking for other Delta pilots performing more then 50% of their work in GA. The training department was a gold mine for them.
It's rumored the company paid the state taxes for a bunch of guys or the training department would have shut down.